Something exciting has happened. A wave of loosely affiliated occupations are springing up across the Western World, drawing thousands of people to the streets in hundreds of countries expressing dissatisfaction with the current economic order. We are creating a network of unignorable reminders to those in charge that we demand […]

I have a confession. I don’t like samba. OK, that’s not quite true. I often enjoy it. It’s cheering. But I have a political objection. But that’s probably not where I should start. Perhaps more to the point, I don’t like dressing up on protests. If I am going on […]

Right now the world is being asked to occupy as many financial institutions as possible; in every city, in every country. But why?Perhaps because so-called ‘austerity measures’ are being forced upon us all, supposedly so governments can pay back the astronomical debts that the richest people and institutions have accrued […]

It’s a strange feeling, sitting in the heart of London at four in the morning listening to well-mannered educated people discussing rationally the problems of the world and the ways things could be changed. No one expects things would change overnight – but they do expect to engage ordinary people […]